Python strings outside the 128 range

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Sybren Stuvel schrieb:
> Diez B. Roggisch enlightened us with:
>> Of course not. AFAIK there is no way figuring out which encoding the
>> target console supports. The best you can do is to offer an option
>> that allwos selection of the output encoding.
> 
> You can use the LANG environment variable on many systems. On mine,
> it's set to en_GB.UTF-8, which causes a lot of software to
> automatically choose the right encoding.

That might be a good heuristic - but on my Mac no LANG is set. So I 
should paraphrase my statement to "There is no reliable and 
cross-platform way figuring out which encoding the console uses".

Diez